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The best way for aspiring stand-up comedians to master their craft is by learning from the masters. It’s also easier for you to learn comedy techniques if you have a role model to look up to. The following names are just a few of the greatest comic masters in all time. Learn about them and try choosing one whom you wish to emulate the most. [...]

What do people like Joe Black, Adam Sandler, Conan O Brien and those other celebrities that viewers love to see on talk shows and movies have in common? All of these individuals had to pass through open mic comedy shows to be seen by talent managers before making it into the celebrity spotlight. [...]

Sometimes, it takes a little push or some talent to make it to the big leagues. Such success stories are heard in education, sports, and politics and even as one acts as a comedian. [...]

Some people do well working a nine to five job in a big office. Others love to be in the field or flying an airplane. All these careers are fulfilling as long as the person enjoys it and the same thing can be done for someone who performs on stage as a comedian. [...]

Perfectly true in all occasions is to know how other successful people do their things before you start professionally in such a craft. People learn by actually imitating others of and modify them and incorporate them to their existing interest and aptitude.

This learning-by-doing activity is especially important and useful if you have to engage in learning comedy and acts that are funny. Below are just some of the things that need to be considered when you are using videos to learn comedy tricks and funny things that can be shared with your general audience.

• Learn the Funniest. While watching comedy videos, you will surely come across certain punchlines that are really funny. Since not all people get to visit all comedy bars and shows, they will surely have no idea about some laughline statements that you are going to say and will surely be appropriated to you by your audience, thus, making them happy.
• Get The Floor Management Idea. Understand how the audience is arranged in the comedy bar in the comedy video you are watching. Are they arranged so that your audience are accessible for the stand up comedian in the floor? Is it arranged so that they will be able to involve themselves in funny activities hosted by the comedian? Are the jokes delivered stir disgusts among audience or have some people cause to have a lung-breaking laugh? Issues that should be given attention.
• Understand Audience’s Diversity. Try to look at the type of audience the comedian is handling. How did he consider each and everybody’s profile and character? This very same thing should be considered in all types of programs you will have in an actual setting. Try to manage your audience and keep them interested when sharing those laughlines in videos you have watched but be careful in using everything you have watched for it will no longer look as if its coming from you and will be seen as if scripted.
• Watch Contemporary and Old Comedy Shows. Old and new comedy videos offers ideas that will help you deliver those old and new funny punch lines and help you in providing a good environment for people to have a good time. There is a very thin line that separates old and contemporary videos but delivery is the key! If you know when and how to deliver jokes that are copied, you will have no problems with them.

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If you think it’s easy to be like those comedians in “Last Comic Standing”, you’re wrong. It’s actually nerve wracking standing in front of a crowd and coming up with those jokes. If your audience doesn’t laugh, not only will they think you’re stupid, you will also feel stupid. [...]

It is harder to make people laugh than to make them cry. An actor can easily recite a monologue and have the audience’s tears rolling down their cheeks but it takes more to tickle their funny bones. [...]

Becoming a comedian is one of the most challenging jobs ever, especially if you are going to do is called stand ups. [...]

The ventriloquist that we popularly know today is an image of a performer sitting on a stool with a dummy on his lap. Nowadays, they are no longer just confined in performing comedic acts at nightclubs. We also see them in our favorite sitcoms and other television programs. Like magicians and their magic tricks, it is interesting to know how one becomes a ventriloquist and how he masters the art and skill of manipulating his voice. [...]

Work in an office is intense. Employees have to either reach sales targets or deadlines and if none of these are met, someone will get fired. If a company really cares about its employees, extra-curricular activities can be planned. [...]